The title already says most of it. Today I tried to install /e/Os on my Oneplus 6 but failed to boot into recovery and istall from there.
I followed the guide but without success. Install /e/OS on a OnePlus 6 - “enchilada”
I am stuck at “Temporarily booting a custom recovery using” at point 4.
When I start the phone it either goes directly into fastboot mode or goes briefly into recovery mode and then jumps directly into fastboot mode.
I don’t know if I have bricked my OP6 by trying to install postmarktOS and ubuntu touch.
It would be great if someone can help me and save me and my trusty OP6
Is this the right way? Since iam not sure becasue im pretty pretty new to this whole phone tinkering and got an error while doing the first line “fastboot flash aop_a images/aop.img”
Error:
$ fastboot flash aop_a images/aop.img
Sending ‘aop_a’ (180 KB) OKAY [ 0.016s]
Writing ‘aop_a’ FAILED (remote: 'Flashing is not allowed for Critical Partitions
')
fastboot: error: Command failed
The device state in the bootloader is currently unlocked.
I am sure you are on the right path in getting the most recent version of Oxygen onto your device. I searched the problem of “Flashing is not allowed for Critical Partitions”.
As this question is important and really about recovering your device “to original OS” after “experimentation” I think you might search / ask
Sometimes when updating phone the updates don’t always ping through immediately one after the other so you are in the land of educated guesswork as to what you had.
The fastboot method of flashing as far as I can tell is to restore the device to previous android version, that is: not to downgrade or upgrade.
Method would be to download the appropriate OOS rom and extract it somewhere on pc, then open terminal in that folder and issue the commands outlined in the first section of Manual Flash of this XDA topic. The fastboot partitions section. Don’t flash persist as it says in the other post you linked to.
I know you already tried this method and maybe it just won’t work for you. I helped a friend restore his OP6 a while ago, see this post here. That was about a year ago. Recently he tried it again but the flashing script would just not work, it put the phone in qualcomm crashdump mode. The only solution in the end was to use msm flashing method…which needs windows and setting up of appropriate drivers etc. See this:
I now tryed it with the eOs recovery with the command you suggested but it didnt work.
After the command my terminal displyed:
Sending ‘boot_b’ (65536 KB) OKAY [ 1.679s]
Writing ‘boot_b’ OKAY [ 0.284s]
Finished. Total time: 2.017s
Than i done as you said:
But with the same outcome as decribed above. When I start the phone it either goes directly into fastboot mode or goes briefly into recovery/boot mode and then jumps directly into fastboot mode again.
Big thanks to @aibd and @chrisrg for helping me out.
I got my OP6 to work. I used MSMTool to restore my phone. Than i reinstalled OxygenOS 10.3.8 and updated further to 11.1.2.2 From there is just used the by /e/OS provided guid (Install /e/OS on a OnePlus 6 - “enchilada”) form top to bottom.
Now iam gonna set it up and try it out in my day to day use and cut a little more Google out of my life.
